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Boosted Boards developing electric motor powered skateboard
September 18th, 2012 by Richard Lord
Boosted Boards is developing an electric skateboard, dubbed the ‘world’s lightest electric vehicle’, with wireless control and regenerative braking. The Boosted Board weighs about 12 pounds. The developers claim their electric skateboard can carry a passenger up a hill with a 15% gradient. The Boosted Board’s electric motors can carry a passenger 6 miles and [...]
How to make daily journeys fun
May 3rd, 2012 by Island Press
As part of the new Island Press E‐ssentials program featuring short electronic‐only publications on timely environmental issues, transit and food writer Darrin Nordahl asks the question: What if getting to work, going to the grocery store, and riding the bus around town could be fun? With Making Transit Fun!, he gives a taste of what [...]
Travel Actively for your health and wellbeing
September 28th, 2010 by Cat Chappell
The Travelactively website states that more than half of men and nearly three quarters of women are not active enough for their health and wellbeing. The website publishes reports on their work. In September 2010 they released their Monitoring Report Year Two. The report covers improving health through everyday travel, a 12-week walking plan increases [...]
How does one reduce traffic congestion on Island roads?
June 14th, 2010 by Richard Lord
Many Guernsey residents believe that one of the irritations of island life is the traffic congestion faced during the morning and afternoon rush hour. Traffic congestion occurs when parents take their children to and from school and when business people drive in and out of St Peter Port. Long queues of cars can form along [...]
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